US companies use bots to discard résumés


US companies use bots to discard résumés



He has sent 2,000 cover letters and all of them have been answered by an algorithm



   As an experiment, Robert Coombs, communication director of the 'Council of State Governments', has developed a bot to send resumes to several companies at the same time automatically.

His objective was not to find a job, but to carry out an experiment with which he was able to verify that many American companies use algorithms to filter the applications they receive.

Coombs has solicited work from almost 2,000 companies and has shown that US companies not only use bots to discard candidates, but also to read or even respond to resumes.

   The program proved to be too effective in its first versions, since of the 1,800 applications it sent in total, approximately 1,300 were sent almost by accident. For the next version he slowed down the times, so he automatically sent 538 cover letters within three months.

The Coombs bot is built on spreadsheets, scripts and tracking programs, as stated in Fast Company magazine. With this, not only was he able to send requests automatically, but he could also generate different and personalized emails and cover letters for each job requested.

The result of the test showed that 74% of the letters hiding to be written by bots were not answered, and 22% had automatically generated answers. On the other hand, 63% of requests that made it clear that they were generated by a bot did not receive a response, while 28% were answered by a program.

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